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Enlarge / Google Chrome in macOS Mojave. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple added dark mode to macOS with its Mojave software update in September. Since then, third-party apps have been adding dark themes to go along with it, but there have been a handful of notable outliers, like Slack and Google Chrome. We’ve now learned that […]
Enlarge (credit: Apple) I ended last year’s review of macOS High Sierra by lamenting its invisibility but praising the much-needed work it did on the macOS foundation. There weren’t a lot of ways to tell that a Mac was running High Sierra instead of Low Sierra, but Apple quietly replaced the file system and the […]
It’s been a few weeks since Apple announced that macOS Mojave would launch today — in that time, many app developers have been at work getting their creations ready for the new OS. Probably one of the changes Mac users want to see first and foremost is support for Dark Mode. While it doesn’t make […]
Enlarge (credit: Wardle and Regula) Unbeknownst to many people, a macOS feature that caches thumbnail images of files can leak highly sensitive data stored on password-protected drives and encrypted volumes, security experts said Monday. The automatically generated caches can be viewed only by someone who has physical access to a Mac or infects the Mac […]
Apple has inadvertently spoiled some of WWDC 2018’s mysteries in advance. Well-known developer Steve Troughton-Smith has spotted a hidden video on the Mac App Store showing off what looks like a new version of macOS with a system-wide dark mode — not just the menu bar and dock as you see today. There’s no guarantee […]
Don’t panic, Mac users — just because Apple only released iOS 11.4 at first doesn’t mean it has forgotten about you. The company has posted a macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 update that supports Messages in iCloud, providing both more consistent chat syncing across your Apple-made devices as well as a way to free up space. […]
Enlarge / macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 in the Mac App Store. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple released the latest update for macOS. High Sierra 10.13.5 primarily adds Messages in iCloud support, but it also includes some enterprise and security updates. Users of supported Macs can download and install it from the Mac App Store now. […]
Enlarge / You may want to nicely ask your friends who use Signal on the Mac desktop to change their notification settings. Signal, the privacy-focused voice and text messaging application, offers an attractive bit of operational security: ephemeral text messages that “self-delete” after a predetermined amount of time. There is just one small problem, however, […]
Enlarge / The 2018 iPad running iOS 11.3. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple released small software updates for iPhones, iPads, and Macs: iOS 11.3.1 for the mobile devices, and a security update to the already-released macOS 10.13.4 for Macs. At just over 49 megabytes, iOS 11.3.1 is a minor update that fixes iPhone 8s for […]
Enlarge / A MacBook Pro with an eGPU enclosure and an external monitor. (credit: Samuel Axon) When Apple released macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 on March 29, fully supported external graphics-card functionality was one of the flagship features. Most Macs ship with discrete or integrated GPUs—power-saving cousins to the graphics cards found in desktop PCs—that emphasize […]
